Monday, 29 October 2012

Swindlers' List

Our Masters
in Brussels have friends in Greece. They are the same corrupt, venal, wasteful,
nepotistic and incompetent politicians that plunged Greece into gargantuan trouble,
through their thefts and dishonesty. The EU expects these fine people to solve
those problems by squeezing up to the last penny out of the poor, the sick, the
elderly and the young.

The fine Greek
politicians also have friends. They are the rich, big business, banking,
sharkish tax-evading plutocrats, each of which has removed undreamed-of millions
of Euros from Greece and put them in secret Swiss bank accounts. There are
about 2,059 mayor ones of these. Their names are known to the Greek government,
for they were contained in a document, the so-called Lagarde List, which the now
President of the IMF discretely handed over about two years ago. Absolutely
nothing was done with this information by the various honest Greek governments;
for one thing, because the list ‘was lost’ (or perhaps it was shot in the back on
trying to escape…?); for another because it contains names of honest Greek
politicians from all the pro-European parties.

Finally, these
fine Greek tax-evaders have enemies. Apart from roughly 99 % of the Greek
population, the worst enemy of all is a journalist called Kostas Vaxevanis. He
managed to do what the whole Greek government was unable to pull off: he located
the Lagarde List. And he published it on October 27th in a periodical
called by the amusing name of ‘Hot Doc’.

It was a
sensation, and immediate, efficient action was taken by the Greek judiciary. The
very next day Kostas Vaxevanis was arrested, for a crime called ‘Breach of Privilege’. You
see: the rights of the corrupt must be strictly protected. They are our friends,
and ‘Honourable Men’. The Honest (and the rest of the filthy population) are
our Enemies.

Where, I
wonder, is Ms Lagarde now? When it came to Greek children going to school
hungry, she knew so well that it was only the fault of their tax-evading parents (as
I explained in this here post). Honour where it is due! Hence my compliments to the lady for drawing up that
list in the first place; but I dare say a bit more ‘outspokenness’ is now called for if she truly
means the best.

Stop punishing people
for being Greek!

Start punishing people for being crooks!

UPDATE October 30: Look at this here article, and see how tremendously efficient and fast the Greek judiciary can be... if you dare touch their buddies, that is...!

2 comments:

With all we know in the 21st century, one would think that people like Kostas Vaxevanis and Julian Assange would be better protected. Seems more than likely that we'll be the most informed era that died from ignorance.

Well, I'm happy to see and to say that there are honest and reasonable judges in Greece as well. The case was heard last Thursday, for all of a couple of hours, if I understand it well; and then the presiding judge swept the whole accusation off the table. There is still hope!